The negative effects of this change have already become visible. On my side, I can definitely observe a decreasing model/user engagement. Meanwhile, the chatrooms I've been visiting are relatively quiet.
I still don't get the point why you would want to enforce community interaction at the cost of user/model engagement. We are coming here to interact with models, not so much with each other. And even if we wanted, there was always the possibility to simply do so by not using the whisper function.
Meanwhile, strong privacy concerns arise cause you cannot even whisper during private shows, meaning that we lose a layer of protection in case the chatroom becomes visible to outside users by glitches. Another user described having seen this happen in a different thread.
And finally, I really cannot stand when a platform patronizes adult users with respect to their communication. In this case it's even worse cause many models will be the ones that actually suffer from this change – especially the independent models. When I first learned about the change, I was just thinking: Huh?! Do they wanna expel their users? That's only gonna backfire, and I hope they will revert the change.
The silence of F4F in return to the many user reactions is speaking volumes as well...
They can call me "dear valued member" as long as they wish, it is just one hell of disrespectful and insulting policy.
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